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Chapter 1154 Bullets and Scars

A website full of Arabic appeared on the screen. On the page Alice opened, the photo of Lieutenant Colonel Barnes was clearly visible, marked with a red aiming mark.

"Operation Raul Merion? What is that?" Clay read out the content on the web page. He was the one who knew the most languages ​​among the crowd except Jack.

"Good question." Alice tapped on the keyboard, "This was a secret anti-terrorist operation conducted by multiple countries in Morocco, North Africa, half a year ago. The leader of a local jihadist organization, Benham Bolsa, was captured.

According to the NSA’s report, a month after the operation ended, the identities of several participating SEALs were leaked, including Lieutenant Colonel Barnes, the commander.

"So, what we are seeing is the assassination list of the Jihad organization?"

Jubal's eyes were slightly cold. "Send a request for assistance to the NSA. We need all the information about this website, the identity of the website administrator, who uploaded the photos, and a list of people who have visited the website."

"I'll help too." Hannah sat down next to Alice.

"Then I'll go to the morgue and keep an eye on it. When Colonel Barnes arrives, please ask Jiejie to bring him here." Jack said and left the police station.

The medical examiner at the local coroner's office was an old black man who walked with a slight limp. He reminded Jack of the disrespectful retired CIA officer Joe Mason.

More than two years have passed since the nursing home case (Chapter 366) in which the old agent suffered a setback and almost had his family broken up.

Later, in the bombing case when Jack first arrived in New York, he successfully cooperated with the DEA to send Roman Lunyoff, the financier behind Marla Grayson, to prison (Chapter 516).

But the IRS has never been able to catch the culprit, Marla Grayson, and this woman is still on the FBI's wanted list, but her ranking is not high.

I have to talk to Jubal later and see if we can find a way to put this woman in jail.

In the original drama, this woman got her comeuppance for her evil deeds and was shot to death, just like what happened to a certain big boss of a medical insurance group recently. There is no reason for her to get away with it in this world.

Jack's mind was wandering, but his hands were busy piecing together the bullet fragments under a magnifying glass.

Lead is soft in texture, and especially when used as the core in small-caliber pistol bullets, it can easily collide with bones when hitting the human body, causing deformation or even breakage.

"I haven't seen a bullet that was so completely broken into pieces in a long time." The old black forensic doctor put on his reading glasses and leaned in front of the magnifying glass and exclaimed.

"This can only happen if the bullets are stored improperly and have aged severely."

After repeated unsuccessful attempts, Jack gave up the idea of ​​putting it back together as a complete bullet and took out an evidence bag, put all the fragments in it, and then stuffed the evidence bag into a brown paper envelope.

"We can only ask the CSI laboratory for help. They should be able to scan it and reconstruct a 3D model, and then compare the trajectory. I hope there will be some results."

The old black medical examiner raised his long eyebrows, which were already long-lasting, and muttered, "The development speed of modern science is really amazing."

"Your skills are just as amazing." Jack praised her generously. "If it were me, it would be almost impossible to remove all the bullet fragments while trying not to cause serious damage to the body."

"Ahaha, young man, speaking of damage," the old medical examiner raised a finger proudly, "I found something strange."

He took out an X-ray film and clipped it to the light board. "I found that the victim had suffered fractures on his face, including the cheekbone and eye socket on the right side of his face."

"Inflicted before death?" Jack looked puzzled. There was no way he would have missed such obvious scars when he examined the body before.

"No, no, no. It's much earlier, at least ten years earlier." The old forensic doctor pointed at the X-ray film and tremblingly pulled up the medical records of the deceased Valerie Barnes on the computer.

"But strangely, this was never mentioned in her medical records."

"It is indeed very strange." Even if the facial fracture is relatively minor, the bruise marks on the skin will be extremely obvious, and there is basically no possibility of it being ignored or concealed.

The Barnes family is quite well off. Under what circumstances would a woman be unwilling to see a doctor even though her face, which she cherishes the most, has swelled up like a pig's head?

Jack took out his cell phone and briefly described the discovery and sent it to Jubal. Just as he was about to put the phone away, Jiejie's number suddenly popped up on the screen. It was Lieutenant Colonel Barnes.

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"Please accept my condolences." After accompanying the lieutenant colonel to see his wife's remains, Jack said goodbye to the old medical examiner, and together with Jie Jie, he escorted the middle-aged officer, whose face was frighteningly gloomy, out of the morgue.

"Bang!" Lieutenant Colonel Barnes smashed the corridor door open with a heavy punch, leaving a shocking blood mark on the stainless steel door frame.

Compared to Team B's captain, Jason Hayes, this lieutenant colonel is younger, just in his early forties.

"I know that my job can put my life in danger at any time, and I have long been aware of this, but this shouldn't include my family, right?"

Facing the lieutenant colonel's question, Jie Jie comforted him in a calm tone, "Everything is still under investigation, lieutenant colonel, and this is not the only possibility at the moment."

Ryan Barnes' eyes shone. "What do you mean? Are you suggesting that this might be a deliberate murder of my wife?"

"Maybe. At least judging from the situation at the scene, we think there may be other possibilities." Jack replied. Although he was unable to recover the bullet fragments, he could basically confirm that it was a small-caliber pistol bullet.

A terrorist who broke into the home of a Navy SEAL commander with a small-caliber pistol and attempted to assassinate him? That's not extreme enough.

"Has your wife ever had conflicts with others? Has there been any abnormal changes in her behavior recently?" Jiejie asked.

"I don't know." A trace of confusion flashed in the lieutenant colonel's eyes. "I'm sorry, but to be honest, I can't answer this kind of question. I am away from home for almost ten months a year.

I may be a good soldier in my records, but I am definitely not a good husband or father."

Tears welled up in his eyes as he spoke. "Although I don't know why the FBI took over this case instead of NCIS, I ask you to catch the murderer as soon as possible."

He paused here, raised the back of his hand and wiped his eyes, "At least he got ahead of me."

Jiejie's voice was still gentle. "Lieutenant Colonel, I think the only thing you need to do now is to focus your time and energy on your daughter. We will handle the rest. The FBI is also professional in handling cases like this."